Dr. Kahn is an Instructor of Medicine in the Division
of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care. He is also a Senior
Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
and a member of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics in the School of Medicine. He joined the Division
after completing a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical
Care medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle,
where he earned a Master of Science in epidemiology.
Dr. Kahn’s research program involves the organization,
management, and financing of critical care services. Specific
areas of interest include ICU workforce and staffing, quality
measurement, benchmarking, and regionalization of critical
care. He holds a career development award from the National
Institutes of Health, investigating the effect of ICU organization
on the outcomes of care for patients with acute lung injury
and other types of acute respiratory failure.
Kahn JM, Matthews FA, Angus DC, Barnato AE, Rubenfeld GD.
Barriers to implementing the Leapfrog Group recommendations
for intensivist physician staffing: a survey of ICU directors.
J Crit Care 2007;22:97-103.
Barnato AE, Kahn JM, Rubenfeld GD, et al. Prioritizing the
organization and management of intensive care services in
the United States. Crit Care Med 2007;35:1003-11.
Kahn JM, Kramer AA, Rubenfeld GD. Transferring critically
ill patients out of hospital improves the standardized mortality
ratio: a simulation study. Chest 2007;131:68-75.
Kahn, JM, Goss CH, Heagerty PJ, Kramer AA, O'Brien CR, Rubenfeld
GD. Hospital volume and the outcomes of mechanical ventilation.
N Engl J Med 2006;335:41-50.
Kahn JM, Doctor JN, Rubenfeld GD. Stress ulcer prophylaxis
in mechanically ventilated patients: integrating evidence
and judgment using a decision analysis. Intensive Care Med
2006;32(8):1151-8.
Kahn JM, Andersson L, Karir V, Polissar NL, Neff MJ, Rubenfeld,
G. Low tidal volume does not increase sedation use in patients
with acute lung injury. Crit Care Med 2005;33:766-771.
